Lasting

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: last=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Lasting, a. 

 Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Durable; permanent; undecaying; perpetual; unending.

Lasting, n. 

•  Continuance; endurance.  Locke.  [1913 Webster]
•  A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or process of shaping on a last.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Lasting, adj.
1 continuing, permanent.
2 durable.

Derivative

lastingly adv. lastingness n.

THESAURUS

Lasting

abiding, adamantine, age-long, aged, alive, ancient, antique, assiduous, bulky, cartilaginous, changeless, chewy, chronic, chronological, cohesive, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, coriaceous, dense, diligent, diuturnal, dogged, drawn-out, durable, durational, durative, eidetic, endless, enduring, eternal, evergreen, everlasting, extended, faithful, fibrous, firm, fixed, fresh, frozen, green, gristly, hard, hardy, heavy, immobile, immutable, inalterable, incessant, incommutable, inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indelible, indissoluble, indomitable, industrious, inert, insistent, insusceptible of change, intact, interminable, intransient, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, kept in remembrance, languishing, leatherlike, leathery, lengthened, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-lasting, long-lived, long-pending, long-standing, long-term, long-winded, longeval, longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, marathon, massive, never-tiring, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, obstinate, of long duration, of long standing, old, overlong, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, prolonged, protracted, quiescent, rapt, recalled, recollected, relentless, remaining, remembered, resistant, resolute, retained, reverseless, rigid, ropy, rugged, sedulous, sempervirent, sempiternal, sinewy, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, solid, sound, spun-out, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stiff, stout, stretched-out, stringy, strong, stubborn, sturdy, sustained, temporal, tenacious, tireless, torpid, tough, tough as leather, unabating, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undaunted, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undiscouraged, undrooping, undying, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unforgotten, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmodifiable, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unshifting, unsleeping, unsusceptible, unswerving, untiring, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vigorous, viscid, vital, vivid, weariless, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wiry

ROGET THESAURUS

Lasting

Diuturnity

N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.